Woman, indigenous and former political prisoner in the prisons of the Rafael Correa revolution. The change has started with Ecuador with a complete surprise: the election of Guadalupe Llori, deputy of the Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement (PK), as the new president of the National Assembly after 48 hours of highly tense debates and votes..

Llori was elected with the votes of the alliance made up of the PK (indigenist, environmentalist and leftist) and the Democratic Left (ID, center-left), who were joined by the conservative CREO Movement, the group of the president-elect, Guillermo Lasso, and various independents.

This last-minute pact has meant the rupture of the alliance that brought Lasso to power when he has not even taken the oath as president. The Social Christian Party (PSC) had closed a controversial agreement with correísmo to guarantee the parliamentary Presidency, which immediately raised fears of future pardons for the leaders of the citizen revolution imprisoned for corruption. On the fugitive Correa also weighs an eight-year prison sentence.

“The incoming government must have governability so that democracy prevails, which implies a diversity of opinions, but with the same objective of developing the country,” Llori said during his first speech..

Lasso himself responded in person, through his social networks, to the new parliamentary president: “I reiterate my commitment to the legislative function of working together for Ecuador. Successes in your administration”.

In this way, the change in Ecuador is consolidated after 14 years of control by correísmo and the dissident Lenín Moreno. For the first time, an indigenous representative agrees to preside over Parliament.

Llori is a symbol in his country, since he was one of the first authorities to oppose the abuses of the Correa government. As governor of the Amazonian province of Orellana, she led a strike by oil companies against Quito, which landed her directly in jail, accused of terrorism and sabotage.. He was also dismissed from his post..

Correa lashed out with everything against the Amazonian leader, whom he addressed in very derogatory terms: “There is a Mama Lucha Criolla, intellectually limited”. The central government sent Orellana to the armed forces, which led to a string of complaints of abuse and torture.

In the El Inca prison, “Lupe did not kneel, she left through the front door, without asking Correa for forgiveness. I still remember her making soap dolls,” recalled Lurdes Tibán, another of the great indigenous leaders. She was acquitted almost a year later..

Together with Llori, the first vice president, Virgilio Saquicela (independent aligned with CREO) and BellaDaniela Jiménez (ID) will command Parliament for the next four years..

The rupture with the PSC will make governability difficult for Lasso, but it also opens a range of pacts in a bet for unity that in the end was the main engine for his electoral victory. “A difficult scenario for the government, but much more dignified,” summarized political analyst Matias Abad.